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The Victorian doctor who saved a woman's life using a transfusion of synthetic blood, says the product can help address the shortage of stock in regional Victoria and also address the imbalance in life expectancy between the city and the country....

A team of micro surgeons in Melbourne hopes to transplant at least one, and possibly two hands onto the remnant arms of a man who lost both hands to a bacterial infection. But the surgeons say hand transplants are a trade-off, because the patients are forced to take anti-rejection drugs that will ...

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Next week is Donate Life Week - the national awareness week to promote organ and tissue donation in Australia. It also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first kidney transplant in NSW, and among the first in Australia. It happened at Sydney's Prince Henry Hospital in 1965. Professor Bob ...

An eight-year-old American boy has become the world's youngest recipient of a double hand transplant. Limb transplants aren't usually performed on children because the benefits aren't viewed as being worth the risk of a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Zion Harvey was an ideal candidate ...

According to the Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick, there is now improved treatment for patients needing chemotherapy at the Mackay Base Hospital following its $408 million redevelopment. But a 69-year-old cancer patient says receiving chemotherapy treatment in Mackay was not as easy ...

The rigmarole of constant checks and consent forms in modern hospitals can be tiring, but as medical historian Dr John Carmody notes, it may be preferable to the alternative. Cast your mind back to 1968, where Australia's first heart transplants revealed the wildand occasionally ...